Soundalikes

[IdleRich]

Every time I hear Save Your Tears by The Weekend... Weeknd, Wkend whatever starting




I think it's Goodbye Horses



Not even that close when next to each other in fact... but what gets you like that?

 

[line b]

Sometimes I have to listen to radio in the car because my phone is too low tech and that weeknd song is disappointing. Nothing about it grabs you- its not catchy it's not moody. Shame cause at least fir radio songs he delivers some of the better stuff. It goes back to the Adele thread- I want to be manipulated in that scenario so it's especially repulsive when the song can't pull that off even in my receptive state

 

[IdleRich]

Sometimes I have to listen to radio in the car because my phone is too low tech and that weeknd song is disappointing. Nothing about it grabs you- its not catchy it's not moody. Shame cause at least fir radio songs he delivers some of the better stuff. It goes back to the Adele thread- I want to be manipulated in that scenario so it's especially repulsive when the song can't pull that off even in my receptive state

I listen to the radio nine times out of ten when I drive, a decision that has its origins in technology but which has now become force of habit. Also by putting the radio on when i drive I do hear all this stuff which would otherwise be completely unknown to me, simply names and faces but with no sounds to put to them - Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Adele, Billy Eilish, Dua Lipa etc

That of course raises the question of why I care what they sound like, I'm certainly long past the stage of wanting to know what is in the charts or somehow preserving a quaint notion of being in touch. This music isn't for me and doesn't intersect with my life in anyway so why do I artificially add it? I guess the reason is cos the above are such massive figures that they are not just musicians but are everywhere; in Game of Thrones or James Bond, in the gossip paged of newspapers and the cover of Vogue etc They are part of life in the 21st Century and as they reached their position through music I suppose I should have some awareness of that music.

That said, the commercial radio stations are so heavily playlisted that they can drive a listener mad quite quickly, does it really have to be this way? Just another of those things where humanity took a wrong turn at some point and now the rule is clearly established that for a radio station to be commercially viable itvhas to be really shit and impossible to listen to for any sustained period.

 

[IdleRich]

Watching this film The Life Aquatic and I hear this (uncredited as far as I can tell) version of Super bike by The Fat Truckers... or just a soundalike, you tell me.



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